Word: kilogram
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cost of a kilogram of crickets in Cambodia
...PROMOTED. ASASHORYU, 22, 136-kilogram ethnic-Mongolian sumo wrestler, to yokozuna, the highest rank in Japan's ancient sport; in Tokyo. Asashoryu is the first Mongolian, and the third foreigner, to win the title. With only four years of professional sumo experience, his rise is the fastest in the modern history of the sport...
...Like many Americans before him, McClintock arrived in China with fears of deprivation and isolation. He brought a 1.8-kilogram tub of peanut butter from the Safeway in Flagstaff, Arizona. "We figured that would hold him," his wife says, "until I could get there with the Hamburger Helper." Alisha shows off the well-stocked larder in the condo: Welch's Strawberry Spread, Bush's Original Baked Beans, Franco-American Gravy and Post Cranberry Almond Crunch cereal, all of it personally delivered by Alisha?who is completing her nursing studies at Northern Arizona?when she arrived on Christmas break...
...even 150-kilogram men aren't indestructible. In 2002, Takanohana missed seven consecutive tournaments due to a knee injury. He made an impressive comeback last September, but after losing last week to an opponent he would once have chomped like sashimi, he knew it was time to hang up the loincloth. "I have no regrets," he told the press. Maybe, but sumo's notoriously conservative overlords might, as Takanohana was the only active Japanese yokozuna. The most Japanese of sports may crown as its next champion a Mongolian named Asashoryu. Tsuneo Watanabe, the head of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, said...
...attack. Two days before and 950 km away in Badia Polesine, a remote town of 10,000 in Italy's industrial northeast, Carabinieri paramilitary police raided an abandoned farmhouse after monitoring a group of immigrants suspected of holding illegal weapons. No weapons were found, but sniffer dogs located a kilogram of C4, the explosive used in last year's Bali bombing, inside a sock thrown into a dirty-clothes hamper. Five Moroccans were arrested. Later, police searched a nearby apartment that was used as a makeshift mosque and found a local map with a nearby NATO base circled...